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A doctor in Ottumwa has been sentenced to 1 ½ years in prison and fined $20,000 for illegally distributing a prescription painkiller in South Dakota.  Authorities say 47-year-old Troy Adolfson wrote prescriptions for about 1,400…

Randy Travis and his wife Mary visited “Today” to talk about his new memoir, “Forever and Ever, Amen: A Memoir of Music, Faith and Braving the Storms of Life," which comes out today, and Mary…

Vince Gill is releasing a new album this summer. The singer is set to drop “Okie” on August 23rd, his first record since 2016’s “Down To My Last Bad Habit.” “I thought this was going…

A serious disease has been found in a dog coming from a Knoxville dog breeding facility.  A confirmed case of canine brucellosis originated in Double G Kennels.  The small dogs were recently sold at a…

With Governor Reynolds recently making a disaster declaration for Wapello County and four other counties, the Iowa Department of Revenue has granted an extension and suspension of penalties for anyone whose main residence or business…

By CAROLYN THOMPSON and MICHAEL MELIA BALTIMORE (AP) — The actions of students who died tackling gunmen at two U.S. campuses a week apart have been hailed as heroic. At a growing number of schools…

Luke Combs and girlfriend Nicole Hocking got engaged back in November, but so far they haven’t had time to make any plans for the big day. “We’re just crazy busy. Especially this year,” Luke tells “People.” “We just haven’t…

All of Thursday’s (5/9) regional track and field meets were postponed and will be made up Friday (5/10).  Oskaloosa and Knoxville will be in a Class 3A qualifier at Dallas Center-Grimes, while Pella and Newton…

Being regular season champions of the Heart of America Conference didn’t help William Penn’s baseball team get into the NAIA national tournament.  Baker and Clarke got the two automatic conference berths in the 45 team…

By MATT O'BRIEN Amazon met with skepticism from some privacy advocates and members of Congress last year when it introduced its first kid-oriented voice assistant , along with brightly colored models of its Echo Dot speaker designed…